Franco Freda

Franco Freda (11 February 1941-) was the leader of the Ordine Nuovo neo-fascist terrorist group in Italy during the "Years of Lead".

Biography
Franco Freda was born in Padua, Italy in 1941, and he was a member of the Italian Social Movement while he was a law student. During the 1960s, he owned a fascist publishing house, and he proposed an alliance of the far-right and the far-left to subvert capitalist society, leading to him being nicknamed the "Nazi Maoist". Freda was mostly involved in the neo-fascist movement's intellectual sphere, but he was also involved with the Piazza Fontana bombing of 1969, and he spent several years in jail on the charge of "subversive association". He continued to be a far-right writer even after the end of the "Years of Lead".